A rebel fighter at a front line checkpoint between Bin Jawwad and Nawfaliyah, Libya, on Tuesday.
Coalition forces are banking on a challenge to official authority from the people and tribes of western Libya to drive Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from power.
With the momentum of ground combat swinging in their favor, forces loyal to Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi pushed back toward the refinery town of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday.
Fears that providing arms would pull the United States into a civil war, as well as concerns that some fighters may have links to Al Qaeda, have spawned fierce debate.
Concerning the assault on Libya, President Obama offered the most detailed portrait of when he might commit the country’s military might in a tumultuous world.
President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday said that he wanted to meet protesters’ demands, but he also spoke of “plots that are being hatched” against Syria.
Ami Matsuya, 5, was tested for radiation exposure in Koriayama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday.
The flow of bad news has undermined the drumbeat of optimistic statements by officials who have tried to reassure a nervous public that progress is at hand.
Tokyo Electric Power Company will completely write off four of the six reactors at the crippled nuclear plant, the company’s chairman said on Wednesday.
Japanese lawmakers are considering a plan to temporarily acquire a majority stake in the company to help it shoulder the liabilities from the nuclear accident, a local newspaper reports.
In Fukushima Prefecture, bans on farm products are eroding the incomes of farmers, who are convinced that the government is not on their side.
Nuclear safety experts spoke at a Senate committee briefing that examined potential improvements at American plants.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, left, and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan before the cricket world cup game pitting their two countries against each other in Mohali, India, on Wednesday.
The prime ministers sat together at a World Cup match on Wednesday as they take steps toward restarting a dialogue.
Gunmen dressed in police uniforms and suicide vests stormed the provincial council office in the northern city of Tikrit in a brazen attack that killed dozens, officials said.
Ivory Coast tipped further toward civil war Tuesday as soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the former prime minister and banker, continued their fight against the strongman Laurent Gbagbo.
Lovemore Moyo, of the Movement for Democratic Change, had been elected speaker of the country’s Parliament in 2008, but his victory was invalidated three weeks ago on a legal technicality.
Samantha Power, President Obama’s adviser on foreign policy, champions the idea that nations have a moral obligation to prevent genocide.
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Video interviews with more than two dozen people under 30, from Libya to the West Bank, talking about their generation’s moment in history and prospects for the future.
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the destruction in Japan after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated the country on March 11.
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A reporter reflects on the experience of one American battalion and how success and failure go hand in hand.
Examining U.S. diplomatic cables as a window on relations with the rest of the world in an age of war and terrorism.
A Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck, has become the latest company to supply a lethal injection drug to U.S. death penalty states, making it the target of campaigners.
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Interactive Feature: A Year at War
